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Thursday, 12 November 2015

#tbt Amiga games

Christmas
1992: I got an Amiga 500+, an underrated and great computer with some
superb games. As the years went by my collection grew, and although
Commodore got a bad rap, the Amiga provided hours of entertainment.

Among
my favourites were Putty (this guy has given a stern review- it's
better than he makes it sound)

Also
a favourite: the addictive Rainbow Islands.

I
wasn't all for brightly coloured platform scrollers: Road Rash was
bloodthirsty fun.

1996:
as GCSEs began, the available time I had to play them shrank, and my
interest in films grew and grew. Added to that, a lot of Saga and
Nintendo fans treated the Amiga as a laughing stock, and it didn't
deserve such treatment.

This
week my parents cleared out their loft, and I rescued a load of these
games from a big black bag up there. I'm tempted to shell out on an Amiga on Ebay, but the prices
are almost as steep as a brand new one would have cost back in the
day. So
I'm looking at the possibility of finding the hardware and software
to play old Amiga games on the PC. Has anyone had any success with
this?

Did
you have one? Were you a rebel and shunned the Mega Drive and the
Super Nintendo? What was your favourite Amiga game? Are there any
resources for playing games like this?

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